As finishes go, it was as perfect as Glenwood Coach Brad Asche had hoped.

Glenwood had seven wrestlers reach the finals in the respective weight classes at the Class 3-A District 8 Championship in Waukee Saturday and all seven punched their ticket to this week’s state tournament.

“We were really close to going seven for seven on district championships but we had a couple guys that had to take a different route,” Asche said.

On Tuesday, voters of the Glenwood Community School District passed a $3.7 million dollar Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL) that will help fund an overhaul of the district's outdoor athletic complex.

Anthony Rainey led four East Mills players in double-figures with 21 points as the Wolverines routed Heartland Christian 79-38 in Corner Conference basketball Friday.

The Wolverines (8-9 overall, 6-5 in the conference) built a 33-18 lead at halftime then exploded for 25 points in the third quarter to blow the game open. For the game, East Mills shot 49.2 percent (30-of-65) and scored a season-high 79 points.

The Iowa High School Athletic Association unveiled its long awaited new football playoff format last week and to say reviews have been mixed is an understatement.

In a press release last Wednesday, the IHSAA, in addition to announcing a new playoff qualifying system, revealed plans for new classifications, new two-year district alignments and to allow teams to play out-of-state schools. All changes are scheduled to go into effect this season.

And all that hangs in the balance is a $3.7 million levy for a new sports complex a Glenwood group supporting the measure has said could serve the district for the next 50 years.

The Glenwood Community School District is holding a special election Tuesday on a Physical Plant and Equipment Levy (PPEL) that would, according to district officials, fund a complete overhaul of the district’s aging athletics complex.

OMAHA - The game matched two teams from two different states for just the second time ever.

No conference standings or post-season seeding were at stake.

Try telling that to the two teams on the court.

Class 3A, No. 6 Glenwood battled Nebraska Class B, No. 6 ranked Omaha Skutt Catholic for the better part of three and a half quarters before falling late in a hard-nosed, slugfest 67-58 loss in a game that had all the atmosphere of the post-season.

Newly-installed traffic signal lights at the intersection of U.S. Highway 34 and 188th Street in western Mills County will be activated Thursday in conjunction with the planned opening of the Love’s Travel Stop and Country Store.

COUNCIL BLUFFS - The last time the Glenwood wrestling team sat atop the team standings at the end of the day at the Hawkeye 10 Conference wrestling tournament, most of its current roster were in kindergarten.

On Saturday, those wrestlers grew up, with three winning individual titles, as the Rams snared their first conference title since 2006, out-distancing runner up Creston 237.5 to 201 in the team standings.